Juggling / Stewart Lawrence Sinclair.
Material type: TextSeries: PracticesPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023Description: xiii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781478016960
- 1478016965
- 9781478019602
- 1478019603
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 793.87 S616 | Available | 33111010960199 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Juggling , Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair--who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking--shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets, and ultimately finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times.
Includes bibliographical references.
Cirque du Covid -- The three-body problem -- La Strada -- Historical arcs -- Isla Vista -- 441 -- Makeup -- Cascade -- Lodi -- Improvising -- Mardi Gras world -- Light-hearted humans -- Cirque du Kabul.
"In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the 4,000 year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking-shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets and, ultimately, finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times"-- Provided by publisher.